Rifles and other weapons are needed, then military instructors for organizing worker battalions in Minsk.

They say the matter is being held up because of red tape and so forth.

I ask you to clarify more precisely and quickly what can and should be provided, and to call Sklyansky and me.

Chairman of the Council of Defense V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1942

in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript